It's like these insane old fucks running the world actually want to make sure that part of their legacy is leaving a constant trail of traumatized "other"s in their wake that will grow into the "terrorist" targets for the next generation to kill.

Bongs & Bastards

If phase changes weren't so badass we would be so fucked, lol.

To these people, human joy is an indulgence for the weak.

You know how over-exaggerated cartoonish villains will talk about how love and caring make you weak? Basically that.

Whoa whoa whoa... Are we talking the guy with uncontrolled schizophrenia who tried to murder his son in the name of God council of 1879 here, or the guy with uncontrolled schizophrenia who tried to murder his son in the name of God council of 1912?

Maybe today, Satan? 😏

They seem like exactly the kind of evil that has to push the bounds of human depravity just to prove to themselves how privileged and powerful they truly are.

Like with those Epstein files we aren't talking about as much since we're waiting to see if this is WW3 -- you have a variety of powerful people who are probably not pedophiles in the mental illness sense, but they fuck teenagers because it's a combination of forbidden fruit and domination/control and half a dozen other things that stimulate their dark triad brains.

That is true, but it doesn't automatically mean that business = dishonest. I like to give human beings some benefit of the doubt in a way that abstract things like corporations do not get. They were born into the same superficial capitalist dystopia I was, and their job might simply mean being self-employed and dealing with the general public. As somebody with a desk/wfh job, that sounds sucky in a retail sort of way.

Don't misunderstand me though -- plenty of them are total shitbags. I need to find a new local mechanic and it sucks. I'm just saying check your assumptions.

The words do not mean the same thing, but they often refer to the same people.

That is, most self-labeled atheists would be best described as "agnostic atheist" and most self-labeled agnostics would also be best described as "agnostic atheist."

Ah yes, this is my favorite kink. "OMG that hot person in a strange situation is still hot!"

The posing is not hurting either.

Though I do find myself being influenced in what I choose to make for lunch...

That sounds like an awful situation where a bunnch of young lives would be sacrificed in an ongoing series of attacks so that the evening news could be saturated with graphic tragic shit leading up to Trump being "forced" to do whatever they have planned next.

So I assume that's literally evil plan A, and reality will turn out worse.

I find the balance. They are less than a half hour drive away and we don't see them all that often.

My kid has grandparents and cousins he likes. Fortunately at most of the get-togethers at grandma's house, we tend to separate into two floors of the house. So I get to hang with my nieces and nephews and spend most of the time with walls between me and the old miserable people.